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This book is dedicated, with respect and gratitude. to

David S. Alberts, D. M. Bennett, James Buckley, Larry Flynt, Ralph Grnzburg, Maurice Girodias, Alvin Goldstein, Bob Guccione, William Hamling Hugh Heftier, E. H. Heywood, Jack Kahane Ed Lange, Charles Mackey, Marvin Mifier Edward Mishkin, Lew Rosen, Barney Rosset, Samuel Roth, HarOld Rubin, Henry Steinborn, George Von Rosen and all the courageous others who served or risked prison time for the right of all Americans to possess and enjoy pornography (literally: "writings of harlots"-such as this story) and other erotica.

Acknowledgments.


This book contains homage to (or, as Woody Allen says, "outright theft from") Donald Westlake, John D. MacDonald, Leslie Charteris, Stephen J. Caniiell, Roy M. Huggins, Juanita Bartlett, Raymond Chandler, Robert Parker, Marco Vassi, and John Cleve. in addition to them, and to all those heroes cited in this book's dedication, the author wishes to thank:
-0. P. Putnam's, the first major mainstream American pubusher to pnnt a work deemed obscene by many (Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA in 1958);
-Philip Jose Fanner, Robert A. Heinlein, and Theodore Sturgeon, who created the first sf characters with genitalia and a disposition to use them;
-Ktistine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, the only magazine editors in contemporary sf who were willing to serialize any of the Lady Sally McGee stories;
-Susan Allison and Peter Heck of Ace Science Fiction (corporate descendant of the above-nientioned G. P. Putnam's), who published those stories in book form;
-my agent Eleanor Wood, who got Susan and Peter to pay more than they wanted for the privilege;
-David Myers, who turned me on to Nikola Tesla, with Margaret Cheney's Temarkable biography TESLA: MAN OUT OF TIME (Laurel, 1981), and the Jugoslavian film Nikola Tesla (with Orson Welles as J. P. Morgan!);
-Mary Mason and Mike Doeliman, who provided other invaluable research data pertinent to this book;
-Amos Garrett, Harry Connick, Jr.. Holly Cole, ~Spider" John Koemer, Ray Charles, Paul McCartney, Dexter Gordon, and the entire catalog of Holgщr Petersen's Stony Plain Records and Tapes, which music kept me sane and productive during this book's creation;
-Richard "Lord" Buckley, for having stomped upon this sweet, swingin' sphere; r -
-and of course, my wife Jeanne and daughter Tern, sine qua ni/ill.

This book would not have been possible (or near as much fun) without all these people, and their ilk.

A harlot with sincerity and a square egg:
they both do not exist.

-~Japanese proverb



Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of. But do It in private, and wash your hands afterward.

-WOODROW W. SMITH


1. The Dick...

Th1s game's over, man! You gotta move your Boss or Rocky's gonna lay a subpoente on him: then his Torpedo is gonna smoke your Old Lady, and all your Heavles'll be doin time-except for maybe your Mouthpiece, but Rocky's Sheriff got him put In the corner-you got nothin' left but Punks and Junkies: you're through, Jimmy.'

-ANGEL MARTiN to Jim Rockford,
commenting on a chess game, In the Rockford Flies episode ~'Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken.' by Stephen J. Cannell


IT was noon before they finished scraping Uncle Louie off the dining room table.